Once An Eagle Quotes

#1. So in the Libyan fable it is told That once an eagle, stricken with a dart, Said, when he saw the fashion of the shaft: With our own feathers, not by others' hands, Are we now smitten.

Aeschylus

#2. At some point, on our way to a new consciousness, we will have to leave the opposite bank, the split between the two mortal combatants somehow healed so that we are on both shores at once and, at once, see through serpent and eagle eyes.
Borderlands/La Frontera (1987)

Gloria E. Anzaldua

#3. I have seen animals shot, and I have seen people who have been blindsided by greief. We always know what has hit us. We don't always know that it will kill us.

Helen Humphreys

#4. I was compared to Charles Bukowski yesterday. It was the best and worst compliment I've ever gotten.

Rosa Sophia

#5. We can all do something to help end domestic violence. A Real Man would never abuse his partner or children, and I am proud to put my name to the Women's Aid Real Man campaign.

Ricky Whittle

#6. I know I can't fix you, but I can hold you. I can hold you so tight you'll forget you feel broken because I'll be holding all your broken pieces together.

Jeannine Allison

#7. You become excellent when you fly at a level that creates a wide gap between where you were before and where you are now. Fly like the eagle; the eagle flies as if it never remembered it was once an egg!

Israelmore Ayivor

#8. Students of America, working families of America: President Obama will not turn his back on you.

Lincoln Chafee

#9. The anomaly is that, as a publishing venture, comics are not doing very well. As a venture that supplies other media, they're incredible.

Dennis O'Neil

#10. Thomas Henri Huxley often preached tolerance, but in practice he could not wait to go after religion and religious people in the most scornful of terms.
[Curb your enthusiasm,2016]

Michael Ruse

#11. Those magicians who object to the use of blood, have endeavored to replace it with incense. But, the bloody sacrifice, though more dangerous, is more efficacious. And for nearly all purposes, human sacrifice is the best.

Aleister Crowley

#12. (You) don't leave the chicken to watch the feed.

Pat Conroy

#13. Once let the black man get upon his person the brass letter, U.S., let him get an eagle on his button, and a musket on his shoulder and bullets in his pocket, there is no power on earth that can deny that he has earned the right to citizenship.

Frederick Douglass

#14. Once I was a lamb, playing in a green field. Then the wolves came. Now I am an eagle and I fly in a different universe.

David Gemmell

#15. Some run the cliffs, and set upon an eagle's wings. Others mire in the den, and once within, can never leave again.

Chris Galford

#16. Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.

Beatrice Wood

#17. Elizabeth Middleton, twenty-nine years old and unmarried, overly educated and excessively rational, knowing right from wrong and fancy from fact, woke in a nest of marten and fox pelts to the sight of an eagle circling overhead, and saw at once that it could not be far to Paradise.

Sara Donati

#18. My only means of self defense is to wiggle my eye and feign being a salamander. It has saved my life but once I was partially eaten by a bald eagle who thought I was a salamander. Hence, my skills. Hence.

Thom Yorke

#19. People fear the unforeseen and the unseen. Truth be told we all fear the unseen.

Lee Boyd Malvo

#20. Never be in a hurry to terminate a marriage. Remember, you may need this man/woman to finish a sentence.

Erma Bombeck

#21. Husbands, be patient with your wives; and wives, be patient with your husbands. Don't expect perfection. Find agreeable ways to work out the differences that arise.

Joseph B. Wirthlin